Re: TNET: Tigers dip into familiar territory for another linebacker

TNET: Tigers dip into familiar territory for another linebacker

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May 12, 2024, 8:47 AM

Well, I pray this guy becomes the next Simmons or Nolan Turner etc. I'm not disappointed nor disputing his fit.

But I disagree with Dabo's false (imo) narrative that we couldn't get a kid like this if it weren't for the portal. We have kids like this sending film to us by the bucket fulls.

The portal is cram full with these type guys who get picked up by teams, never get pt and end up transferring down a level. MOST OF our portal entries are guys like this. Before you TD this post, I'm NOT saying this guys a dud.

I still contend it's a false narrative that Dabo says about the portal affecting high school recruiting. It actually has produced more kids from high school getting offered. May not be from their dream school, but from A school. It's a finite number of kids that CAN get on a team. Every year a large number of kids who DID get a team out of high school as a project have in essence taken themselves off the market by entering the portal and never being picked up, thus providing more hs kids.

I know of zero high school kids in the portal. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you put your name in the portal as a high school transfer.

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No HS kids in portal but Dabo is saying teams take portal kids over some HS kids

I hope this works out. But other offers were Charlotte, Colgate, Delaware

Re: TNET: Tigers dip into familiar territory for another linebacker

85tiger2012® said:

Absolutely the portal has hurt high school kids of the medium to developmental levels. People are taking cast off 4 stars or maybe 3 instead of developmental high school kids

Let’s do the math to see if you are correct. We know the total number of scholarships schools provide to football players is known fixed number. We also know that schools fill 99ish% of those ships every with a few going to deserving walk on players. We also know there are a significant number of players who enter the portal but never leave (think Hotel California). If schools are awarding all available scholarships every year and the number grows based on players left behind in the portal, it stands to reason more HS players are getting scholarships than would be the case without the portal. Might not be their school of choice, but we can’t always get what we want, but we usually get what we need

TNET: Tigers dip into familiar territory for another linebacker